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Thursday, May 3, 2012

Another rush-rush deal before the Sam Rands hit the road

Having turned gold to lead in the SoWhat District, Homer Williams and his crew are now going to get to build a hotel there. The Portland Development Commission has approved the Homer proposal over the two others that were vying for the site.

Apparently, one factor tipping the decision was the Williams group's willingness to put down a nonrefundable deposit and close more quickly than the other bidders. Ah yes, time is of the essence with just about everything in Portland these days.

If a successful hotel is actually built in SoWhat, we'd be mighty surprised.

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Once the hotel's open, we can float the Convention Center upstream and anchor it offshore. If we can't build a headquarters hotel next to the Convention Center, maybe we can move the Convention Center next to the headquarters hotel.

SoWhat hasn't had one street improvement even though much of the TIF dollars have been spent, except that SW Moody has been rebuilt twice, and it was already there. Even though 97% of the trips into SoWhat are by vehicles and people get lost trying to find the place, who cares?

But if Homer is successful with the Hotel gig, watch how the North Portal street improvements are done for Homer's Hotel before the 8 year delayed South Portland at Macadam and Bancroft. The South Portal has a higher priority than the North. But Homer will make sure that's changed.

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